yeah thats bad sectors. you can possibly have linux ignore those secotrs in the future and mark them as bad by unmounting the drive (or remounting it read only) and then doing e2fsck -c -y /dev/hdc1 Adam On 5 Jun 2003, Rahul Kalaskar wrote: > Hi All, > > I had to reboot a machine as I lost the ssh connectivity to it. I could > ping to it though. On rebooting, the dmesg buffer showed the following > messsage > > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=7520/0/155, sector=1820440 > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02 (hdc), sector 1820440 > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=7576/0/183, sector=1834800 > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02 (hdc), sector 1834800 > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=7520/0/155, sector=1820440 > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02 (hdc), sector 1820440 > > Does this mean there is a hardware problem with the disk. > The machine was running for about 250days. I am using IBM Travelstar hard disk. > The machine is located in an NEMA box with maybe poor air circulation. > > Thanks! > Rahul > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users